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Identity management software provider Okta Inc. has pulled another successful quarter out of the bag, posting earnings that once again beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, whose software allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each …
Streamlio adds real-time data stream processing to Apache Pulsar
Startup Streamlio Inc. today announced a major update to the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe messaging platform, which serves as the main rival to the better-known Apache Kafka project. Publish-and-subscribe messaging systems such as Apache Pulsar are designed to provide a highly scalable way for …
SAP’s cloud platform is now available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud
Software giant SAP SE’s cloud platform is now generally available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Microsoft said at SAP’s Sapphire Now conference Tuesday that developers now can deploy Cloud Foundry based on SAP Cloud Platform to Azure in its West Europe region. …
Amazon fires up its Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services Inc. today caught up with its rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announcing general availability of its managed Kubernetes service for managing software containers. Software containers have become a vital part of the application development infrastructure landscape, because they …
Oracle’s cloud migration service Soar has landed
Oracle Corp. today unveiled a new suite of services called Oracle Soar designed to make it easier for customers to migrate their applications to its cloud platform. The move is designed to persuade customers to adopt the cloud-based Oracle Database 18c it launched last year. …
Skytap study finds enterprises still struggle with cloud migrations
Public cloud provider Skytap Inc. says many enterprises are choosing the most difficult and arduous path to migrate their most critical, legacy applications to the cloud. As a result, many of these organizations are making a meal of things, creating more challenges …
Container startup Portworx brings persistent storage to Amazon container service
Portworx Inc., a provider of cloud-native storage technologies for containerized software, said today it has been chosen as a launch partner for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. The partnership means that Amazon’s EKS customers can use Portworx’s persistent …
Databricks platform updates speed up AI and machine learning workloads
Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is sharpening its focus on artificial intelligence workloads, announcing today a major update to its Unified Analytics Platform that should help to unlock the siloed data needed to power these workloads and simplify machine learning processes. Databricks …
Zuora aims to simplify subscription management in new release
Cloud subscription management services firm Zuora Inc. today is making what it calls its “biggest product announcement ever” with the launch of the Spring ‘18 version of its Zuora Central Platform. The Zuora Central Platform is a software-as-a-service offering that’s used to …
Quick Base’s ‘low-code’ apps can now automate more business tasks
“No-code” software application development platform company Quick Base Inc. today added new automation capabilities to its platform, enabling users to automate a variety of mundane business tasks. Quick Base provides an easy to use platform for workers to create software applications in just …